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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was Hitler's genocide amogst many different races and other people. It concluded with 11 million deaths, including 6 million Jews, It has been remembered as one of the most brutal genocides in history. -
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Japan Invades China
Japan invades China. China fights with the Allies and Japan is aided by the Axis powers. China wins due to association with the Ally forces. -
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Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. First used in 1939 against Poland. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Non Agression Pact
The pact that Germany and Soviet Russia made to not intervene with eachother before the war. Was voided once the invasion of Russia bagan. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II begins. -
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Battle of Britain
The Luffewafe fought British forces completely in the sky. The first major campaign to be fought entirely by armed forces. One of the largest campaigns for bombing on London. -
Land Lease Act
Plan devised by the US for the nations fighting the Axis pre-entry into the war. Lending and leasing money and materials for war. -
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Operation Barbossa
The codename for the Nazi invasion on the Soviet Union. About 4 million Nazi party troops were involved. Hitler wrote about his aspirations in his book "Mein Kampf". -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
Bataan Death March
The Battaan Death March was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
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Battle of Midway
Only 6 months after Pearl Harbor attacks, the US Navy defeated a Japanese fleet. This was a decisive battle for the war. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
German powers against the Soviet Union. FIghting for the southern town of Stalingrad, Russia. Caused German forces to devline on the eastern front due to Soviet victory. -
D-Day
On June 6th, Ally forces land troops on the beaches of Normandy, France. One of the bloodiest days of the war, but victorious for the allies and changed the whole war around. -
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Battle of the Buldge
A campaign in Belgium towards the end of the war. Due to German operational failure it was a decsivice victory for the Allies. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
American forces land on the island of Iwo Jima, an important staging area for attacks, and sucesffully capture it. Many American lives were lost, but it was another step towards the victorious completion of the war. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. Pacific battle won by the American forces. -
V-E Day
V-E Day was the European celebration of the Axis withdrawal from the second World War. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An 'explosive' moment for the war. Left the world in shock at atomic power. -
V-J Day
The name given to the day in which the Japanese boarded the USS Misourri and surrenderd to the US. The Victory over Japanese Day. Later causing other Axis forces to see that they will not win this war. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
